From: "Brent W. Hughes" <brent.hughes@...>
Date: 2005-06-24T04:50:37+09:00
Subject: Re: [Newby] Scite, irb question

Ryan,

Thanks for the info on fxri.  I never would have guessed what it does 
from the name.  It looks nice.

Brent



Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> Brent W. Hughes said:
> 
>>I've recently downloaded Ruby which includes the Scite editor.  I get
>>into the editor and select "Run irb" from the Tools menu.  I get irb
>>running in the right column.  Then I type 123 and find that each
>>character is duplicated.  That is:
>>
>>irb(main):001:0> 112233
>>
>>=> 123
>>
>>What gives?
> 
> 
> Hi Brent,
> 
> I have not used Scite before, but I just tested this out and get the same
> behavior. I can only guess that both Scite and irb are echoing what you
> type, hence the duplication. It must be a Scite bug (or a bug in whatever
> adds the irb support.)
> 
> Until this is fixed I would recommend you try out fxri, which also has a
> built-in irb, as well as documentation. It is a good place to play around
> with Ruby and learn about the built-in classes.
> 
> Ryan
> 
>